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Chapter One Introduction 

1.1 Research Background 
Over the past 30 years, the thinking and conceptual nature of metaphor has been commonly  acknowledged  in  linguistics,  which  is  also  amply  underpinned  by innumerable verbal facts. However, since “metaphor is primarily a matter of thought and action and only derivatively a matter of language” (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980:153), the  CMT,  relaying  almost  exclusively  on  the  patterns  detectable  in  verbal  symbols, must be incomplete or needs to be further validated, as there are other communicative modes or manners such as sounds, colors, lines, layouts, and so on, for human beings to construct and express concepts than language alone (Forceville, 1996, 2006, 2008). Aiming at this issue, a group of scholars, guided by Charles Forceville, have begun to absorb nutrition from other disciplines and been committed to expanding the study of conceptual  metaphor  that  is  confined  in  pure  linguistic  field  to  the  interdisciplinary multimodal research platform, since the late 1990s.  The  rise  of  multimodal  metaphor  study  can  be  attributed  to  the  following  three factors:  The  first  is  the  shortage  of  pure  verbal  metaphor  research  in  the  field  of cognitive  linguistics.  Now  that  “metaphor  is  pervasive  in  everyday  life,  not  just  in language  but  in  thought  and  action”(Lakoff  &  Johnson,  1980:  4),  the  study  of conceptual  metaphor  must  be  expanded  into  other  communicative  modes  than language  alone;  The  second  is  the  research  shift  to  multimodal  discourse,  caused  by the  popularity  of  multimodal  communicative modes.  After  entering  the  21st  century, the  multimodality  of  human  communication  has  been  maximally  utilized  by information  technology,  and  various  kinds  of  media  and  symbols  such  as  pictures,  texts, sounds, layouts and so on, are jointly applied to fully exert the synergy of senses, transmitting  information  and  exchanging  emotions.  The  research  of  multimodal metaphor  can  give  a  cognitive  explanation  about  the  aesthetic  experience  and persuasive  function  brought  by  the  metaphorical  multimodal  discourse.  The  third  is the  interdisciplinary  research  trend,  emerging  at  the  end  of  the  20th  century  in humanities, which serves as a macro context for multimodal metaphor study. 
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1.2 Research Purpose and Significance
The  purpose  of  this  thesis  is  to  study  the  modal  con本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。